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<div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We don't usually reach out with special requests to Terrie's Take readers, we respect that people are busy. However, it's August, and we do have a good reason for asking your help.</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As most readers will know, our sister publication, Metropolis</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> magazine, is well on the way to launching a major new tourism content portal for Japan, in English. We have partners covering more than 30 prefectures already and are adding more over the coming weeks until we have the whole country covered. Content is being produced in high volume, we have a collaboration contract with a certain major US search engine company, and the software is being produced and will be beta-tested in September. </span></font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">About the only thing not resolved yet is what we are going to call the website…</span></font></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Therefore, we have with the help of our partners winnowed down a list of more than 50 names to a final set of 5, and we’re now ready to have our friends tell us which of these 5 names make the most sense. Our target is English-speaking tourists looking to plan a trip to Japan, but we also need something that Japanese tour operators, hotels, and transportation companies would understand. Therefore, we are hoping to get at least several hundred comments from both non-Japanese and Japanese, telling us what you think would be most attractive to our target audience.</span></font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a title="http://bit.ly/ndUXFx" href="http://bit.ly/ndUXFx">http://bit.ly/ndUXFx</a></span></font></p></span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We realize that some people may not like the top 5 names selected. If you feel strongly we should be using something else, then please let us know in the </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“Other” section, where you can enter your name of choice, or use the “Comments” section to elaborate on what you think the site should be doing to promote tourism to Japan.</span></font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The deadline for voting is Sunday midnight, August 21<sup>st</sup>, 2011. One visitor, one vote please.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thank you for your interest and support in our efforts to improve tourism to Japan. We look forward to having a crowd-tested website name for this exciting new project.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">From the online development team at Metropolis magazine, in conjunction with our Regional Partners.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">* Questions to <a title="mailto:terrie@lincmedia.co.jp" href="mailto:terrie@lincmedia.co.jp">terrie@lincmedia.co.jp</a></span></font></p>
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